CES 2012

The 2012 International CES has started in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since January 10 to January 13 2012 International CES will be offering the most exciting technological news. This year’s edition has more than 3.100 companies, and we will see more than 20.000 new products being launch in the 2012 International CES, the world’s largest hub for consumer technology innovation.

Innovative products as ultrabooks, voice and gesture-based technologies, smartphones and OLED TVs are going to be launched during the event. The 2012 CES show floor covers 1.851 million net square feet of exhibit space, a huge space bigger than 37 footaball fields, this big space is filled with consumer technology innovation.

What can we see at CES?

Microsoft President and CEO Steve Ballmer delivered a pre-CES keynote address. During the address, Ballmer announced that Microsoft Kinect will be available on Windows on February 1, 2012. Other innovations from Microsoft such as Windows phone can be enjoyed at CES.

Other big companies like LG Electronics, Panasonic, Nokia, Samsung, Pioneer, Sharp, Sony, Intel and more are going to launch interesting and innovative products at CES too.

Here are a few conferences you can see at CES the next days

Conferences January 12:

• At LVCC, Nort Hall: “Simplifying the Architecture for Connectivity”, “Kids Go Mobile”, “The Future of Tablets: Segmentation”, “Show Me the Money: Mobile Payments and the Consumer”
• At The Venetian: “Being Creative in Producing a Live-Streaming Show”, “HD Video Everywhere”

Conferences at CES are amazing and there is a wide variety of them to choose the best for you.

The Consumer Electronics Association announced that the 2012 International CES will be the association’s second largest show in history. Every major technology company across the globe is participating in force at this year’s CES. Companies like Apple, Facebook, Twitter, HP and Dell are sending significant delegations to CES to show and talk about their new products.

The opening day CES started with a record number of exhibitors, we have 2 more days to see what CES can show to us.

The most social companies

Social Media have become a really important part of our lives, we use different social networks all along the day and we use it also while we are in our jobs. NetProspex Social 50 is a ranking of top corporations in America and it’s employees usage of the social networks. NetProspex Social 50 rates the activity of usage of social networks of 100.000 business contact records from their database plus information provided to them by Rapleaf a social data provider.

The top ten of the ranking:

The first company of the ranking is Microsoft with the better score in the list, followed by eBay for a long distance (306 points of Microsoft vs 208 points of eBay). The activity of the employees of this companies was analyzed in the following social networks:

- Facebook

- Linkedin

- Twitter

- MySpace

- Friendster

- Flickr

- LiveJournal

- Hi5

- Flixter

NetProspex has also prepared a Twitter ranking too, and the winner is Microsoft again, this Twitter ranking analyzes the number of followers, the number following, as well as the number of tweets. The social network most used by employees of companies according to NetProspex data is Linkedin it’s used by more than the 30% of the employees of these companies, followed by Facebook used by more than the 10% of the employees of these companies.

Social networks are important tools that can help employees of any company to do their jobs in a better way, this new reality of instant connections can make us more productive and agile, the Social Media revolution is going to change the way we work and we communicate with each other and it is important that all employees of all companies know how to correctly use these powerful tools.